Japan says: Whales are eating too much fish

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Japan says whales are eating too much fish causing fisheries to deplete.
That whale populations need to be culled to reduce their threat to fast-disappearing fish stocks.
They are the only country in the world allowed to hunt for "research" by the International Whaling Commision. So, is this the result of their research? to hunt more whales?



link: Japan says whaling ensures fish survival

Will Killing Whales Save the World's Fisheries?

I agree to hunting whales for food in dire times, e.g. impoverished days of post-war japan or isolated tribes living in places where food is scarce (eskimo tribes).

I can't agree with this argument.

Sorry, if this topic came out of the blue. I just had a heated debate with a Japanese relative who came over. We were watching the trailer for The Cove (it's finally released in Japan although heavily edited) then he started saying crap about the Australians (Green Peace) that they should mind their own business. Then he argued that whale numbers need to be controlled because they are depleting fish stocks all over the world. I said, No, humans single-handedly reduced BOTH whale and fisheries in the past century. In the end, we just agreed to disagree.